ON MARCH 3rd a whale calf washed ashore in Georgia, on America’s east coast, bearing slash marks attribute of a ship’s propeller. Lower than a month later one other whale, a current mom, was discovered floating off the coast of Virginia. Her again was damaged from the blunt-force trauma of a ship collision; her calf, lacking and nonetheless meant to be nursing, just isn’t anticipated to stay. Three deaths inside weeks just isn’t excellent news for the North Atlantic proper whales, of which solely about 360 stay.